Dan Meers, better known as the Kansas City Chiefs’ mascot, KC Wolf, suffered serious injuries while rehearsing a zipline routine during the 2013 season. Tim Dollar represented him. On August 21, 2014 Meers reached a settlement agreement with those involved. Meers has been KC Wolf since the mascot’s inception 24 years ago. Dan Meers, the man in the mascot suit of KC Wolf for the Kansas City Chiefs talks about the fall that left him seriously injured and how it caused him to ref. Now, with Fisher out and the previous injury to right tackle Mitchell Schwartz, the Chiefs will be down their two starting tackles when they meet the Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. See which college basketball players are injured today and get the latest NCAA basketball injury news with our injury report for every team in the NCAA. Kansas City Roos (0). Dan Meers, who was the Chiefs mascot, KC Wolf, and was seriously injured in a zip-line accident last November, has reached a confidential settlement in a lawsuit regarding the incident.

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Dan doesn’t profit from book sales. All proceeds from the sale of Dan’s book are used to fund missions and ministries aiding orphans and the poor around the world through the 501(c)(3) ministry of Character That Counts.

Organizations receiving support include, but are not limited to:

• The Global Orphan Project

• Grace Mission Orphanage - Limbe, Haiti

• City Union Mission (homeless shelter)

• Shelter KC (homeless shelter)

• Hope House (battered women’s shelter)

• Restoration House

• Compassion International

• Convoy of Hope

• Hopegivers

Living A Life of Influence -- this book became available on December 1, 2019. The book includes stories from KC Wolf's 30-year career and specifically the international trips he has taken to Honduras, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Philippines, India and Tanzania over the past five years.

For more than 30 years Dan has served as KC Wolf, the mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs football team. Although his occupation is mascot, his preoccupation and passion in life is using his time, talent and treasure to make a positive impact in the lives of others. Dan believes we are all called to be difference makers in this world. We are called to care for those who are hurting and helpless. Regardless of whether you re the CEO of a company or a custodian, no matter if you are the head coach of your team or just the team mascot, each of us can live a life of influence. Each of us is uniquely designed by God to make an impact with our lives.

Dan Meers (KC Wolf), 'Life Is Like A Coin...Spend It Wisely.'

Chiefs mascot KC Wolf, a.k.a. Dan Meers, finds identity in Christ following severe injury

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When Dan Meers ran on the field as KC Wolf with the Kansas City Chiefs during Sunday’s Super Bowl, all fans saw was the traditional Chiefs’ mascot: a googly-eyed wolf. What they were actually watching was a miracle.

Super Bowl Champions! Best Groundhogs Day Ever!! #ChiefKingdom#SuperBowlLIVpic.twitter.com/CmHAv72EKb

— KC Wolf 👀 (@kcwolf) February 3, 2020

In November 2013, during preparation for a home game versus the San Diego Chargers, Meers practiced a stunt that involved him bungee jumping out of Arrowhead Stadium’s lights, dropping 20 feet, and being carried over the field by a zip line. Instead, Meers dropped 75 feet, crashing into the seats on the upper deck of the stadium, breaking seven ribs, collapsing his lung, fracturing his tailbone, crushing his sacrum and breaking his T-12 vertebra, the largest vertebra on the spine.

“The doctors told me, ‘You’re fortunate to still be around,’ ” Meers told The Topeka Capital-Journal in 2016. “I tell people I don’t believe in luck — I don’t even believe it was an accident. In the back of my Bible, I wrote down a quote many, many years ago — ‘There’s no such things as accidents. They’re just incidents in God’s perfect plan for my life.’”

Meers, who has been the Chiefs’ mascot since 1989 (and was inducted into the National Mascot Hall of Fame in 2006), wasn’t sure if he’d ever be able to perform as KC Wolf again, and endured constant pain in his recovery process. But that was a time Meers said deepened his faith in God.

“You can learn so many valuable lessons when you’re going through the difficult times in life,” he told the Capital-Journal. “I meet people all the time who are going though painful times. Everybody experiences pain. Mine was more physical pain, but for others, it’s emotional or relationship pain. Everybody goes through difficult times. Hopefully, I use my story to try to encourage people. I still wake up with pain almost every morning. It’s no fun, but I can choose to rise and shine or rise and whine. I don’t want to be a whiner. I want to make a difference.”

Meers eventually recovered to the point he could resume his work as KC Wolf, although his days of bungee jumping and four-wheeling have been toned down a bit. However, whether on the field of the Super Bowl or in a preseason game, Meers sees what he gets to do as a gift. He travels and speaks at schools, conferences, and church events, and has vowed not to take for granted the time he’s been given.

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“Honestly, KC Wolf — that’s what I do,” he said. “It’s not who I am. I am first and foremost a follower of Jesus Christ. My identity is I’m a child of God — that’s my true identity right there. KC Wolf is what I do, and I love what I do. And one day, I’ll pass it on to somebody else, but while I have this platform, I hope to use it to make a positive impact in this world.”

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